Nice to meet you!
I am Nele, enthusiastic beginner, fascinated learner and eternal student. I started this idea, Cursist, in the early 2020s, and what was first a side project and experiment has since grown into a full blown passion project.
My ambition is to grow Cursist into a comprehensive knowledge platform where you can find answers to all your ceramics questions, and find inspiration on all topics within ceramics.
To do this, we work with experts in the field, with rock-solid teachers, with people who are top in their niche, who know what they are talking about. This way, we want to pass on reliable information in professional, structured and clear way to everyone with a heart for clay and ceramics. That way, we make valuable and age-old knowledge and skills accessible through our online platform.
The combination of image, sound, editing, copywriting, layout and ceramics is right up my alley. I also enjoy documenting my own learning, experimenting and creating. Want to start learning right along with me?
Meet our teachers
Rudie Delanghe
Ceramics is the common thread in the life of Rudie Delanghe. He is an experienced master ceramist and the country’s best ceramists are taught by him. He exhibits his work in his home country Belgium and abroad and is best known for large vases and raku work.
A seasoned teacher, he has taught hundreds of people how to throw; he still passionately passes on his expertise in workshops and master classes. Rudie lives and works in Fajac-en-Val in France.
Louise Daneels
Louise Daneels is a ceramicist and illustrator. She studied illustration at KASK and ceramics and glass art at LUCA School of Arts. According to her, illustration and ceramics are ‘a match made in heaven’. She combines making her own cheerfully colored and illustrative work, which she exhibits at home and abroad, with teaching handbuilding, as well as throwing on the potter’s wheel.
Kathleen Bessemans
Kathleen Bessemans has been working full time as a ceramicist and designer since 2012. She has years of experience in all kinds of ceramics techniques and also teaches in her own studio where she enjoys inspiring others to the ceramic craft. Her work is a quest for beauty and ranges from tableware to jewelry to interior objects.
Sofie Goethals
Sofie of SOGO ceramics makes sleek, modern and 100% handmade functional ware. She makes her work for both private clients and businesses.
In addition to finishing orders, Sofie also enjoys sharing her passion at workshops. Because of her scientific background, she is enormously fascinated by the world of glazes. She gives various theoretical and practical glazing workshops in Belgium and abroad. She also regularly organizes throwing courses on various themes for both beginners and advanced ceramists.
Caroline Kesteleyn
Caroline, aka Caro-K, is inspired by a love of design in which beauty is transferred through light colors, use of natural materials, minimalism and functionality.
Since 2016, Caroline has been a full-time potter/ceramist. She started her own studio Caro-K. Together with Sybille, she now continues to build Atelier Aimée. Enthusiastically passing on the pottery bug to students is her passion.
Aster Caemaert
For Aster, ceramics are so much more than a finished product. It is a constant discovery and rediscovery of the clay. For more than 20 years she has been creating with enthusiasm and schooling herself in all aspects of pottery, glazing and firing. This wonderful craft became a way of life.
Living this passion and sharing it with students and colleagues gives Aster full strength. In recent years, the studio grew along with the tides of her enthusiasm and love for the craft.
Anima Roos
Anima Roos has been passionate about clay for decades. For 40 years she has had her own studio. She exhibits at home and abroad. Over the years, she has studied a wide variety of ceramic techniques. As an experienced teacher, she enjoys sharing her expertise with her students.
Veerle Van Overloop
Veerle Van Overloop studied ceramics at the University of Art and Design Antwerp Sint-Lucas and has a whole series of master classes to her credit. With her pure passion and timeless collections, Veerle put her label Fou de Feu on the Belgian design map in 2009.
Architecture, photography, design & food culture are her main influences. Her work is a mix of materials used in a simple and pure way.
Françoise Busin
Françoise Busin has 30 years of experience in throwing. She is a licensed craftswoman and has been teaching for more than 25 years. She has already guided hundreds of people in learning to throw, and knows better than anyone how to explain something so that people understand it in detail.
Fernand Everaert
Fernand Everaert is a master ceramist and craftsman. He worked as a metal design teacher for 30 years, and has since been an independent ceramicist and teacher for more than 45 years. He teaches workshops and courses in his studio in Lochristi and breathes clay and ceramics. “No matter how you look at it, the clay makes you feel alive.”
